Friday, May 15, 2009

Non-voters' Alliance for Democratic & Electoral Reform

Yep, you read that right. There's a new organization in Canada, just formed, with a current membership of one. The President of this new organization - me - predicts that by day's end, the membership of the Non-voters' Alliance for Democratic and Electoral Reform (NADER) will have ballooned by at least 100 percent....

And I'd no sooner finished typing that when my Gmail notifier dinged. Friend Daphne has just signed up.

Certainly, by the number of tweets, Facebook comments and blog and forum posts I've read, it's reasonable to surmise that the informal membership of the non-voting public has grown substantially since, well, Wednesday. And it's not just in BC that this phenomenon is manifesting itself; there's a quiet uprising of voter resistance from all across this country.

Now if anyone feels compelled to stop by and harangue non-voters for being "apathetic" or "lazy" or "failing to honour those who fought and died for our right to vote" (they fought for freedom, not for voting) or otherwise berate us for not partaking in the farce of Canadian elections, don't bother. Your comments will be deleted.

Shall write more on this topic in the coming days, weeks, months and years; in other words, for as long as it takes. For now, just wanted to get the news out.

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The Non-voters' Alliance for Democratic & Electoral Reform began on May 15, 2009 to provide a voice for people of conscience who, after a deeply personal, often painful, decision have turned their backs on the provincial or federal electoral process. Anyone who has made the decision not to vote for reasons related to the non-representative nature of our purportedly representative democracy or is simply disgusted with the entire system is welcome to join. Whether they have yet not voted isn't the point, but rather that they've determined not to vote because they consider the system fails them and/or others in some way and they want to come together, as non-voters, to demand full democratic reform.

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